It's that time of the year again; that time of the year where news outlets get to indulge in sensationalist headlines about how Mac OS X got hacked in twenty seconds. Yes, CanSecWest just held its Pwn2Own contest again, and they fell like drunk 16-year-olds this time (don't read too much into that one, please).

The competition is fun but based on it's rules, it can only highlight the researcher. They choose the single target to attempt and can not use the exploit against a second target.

What I'd like to see is a post-competition stage where the same exploit is tested against all browser/platform combinations. Find out and publish the full spectrum of vulnerable configurations. Are all current versions of Firefox vulnerable and across what platform installs rather than just 3.6.2 on osX.